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mircea_popescu: nothing is worse for
a good project than poorly selected new contributors.
mircea_popescu: no, it is NOT because of "inflated expectations". it is because of the barnacle effect. the world consists of
a productive minority and
a leechy majority. once
a small elegant system becomes known, the previously uninformed majority now has
a gradient to inform it. so they swarm the 2nd system, and barnacle it to all hell.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: i'm hardly
a power user so i hope mine lasts longer than that
pete_dushenski: pretty much why i run
a variety of the older os'es and quite avoid their work suite
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: looks like
a pretty decent assessment of mac software
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard: ^ definitive proof b-
a is not
a cult << butt...butt... we promote hate ?
mircea_popescu: Judge Raymond Moore handed down
a four-year sentence, but announced from the bench that she needs psychiatric help. "I'm not saying that her decisions were all
a product of mental illness... But she's
a bit of
a mess," said the judge. "She has no history in the criminal justice system. She is very young.... Teenagers make dumb decisions
a lot."
TomServo: heh, 4 years for trying to board
a plane?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: live in seoul for
a year, count the number of snot rags you turn black, and tell me we can keep doing this forever << entirely different matter eh ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: mp you know the logical conclusion to come of this is that i am somehow you, yes? << it is actually quite logical if you think about it. you're clearly part of this bizarro cult that consists of not being fucking niggers. and there's AT MOST one person that may conceivably even be interested in not being
a fucking nigger at all.
Adlai: for somebody who so loves social media you sure do spend
a lot of time on tumblr
Adlai: b-
a promotes the individual's love for zirself
danielpbarron: gribble> Rating change | Old rating 3 | New rating: Kelticfox > 4 > Anduck | Artisan coffee for Bitcoin and
a Linux guru to boot! << handcrafted coffee now?
nubbins`: live in seoul for
a year, count the number of snot rags you turn black, and tell me we can keep doing this forever
danielpbarron: heh i was just catching up on that thread; harvested
a lot of WoT data out of it
mircea_popescu: well, he just gave himself away, because obviously the Smithsonian lists all artists that it ever exhibited ; so does the louvre, of course. crossreferencing these lists and excluding everyone already dead, we get
a list of...
mircea_popescu: "There are all of 3 people on this forum who know who i really am, and every one of them would not sell that secret for $100,000 because they have
a vested interest in keeping the secret. What i am is why you will never find out. I am, in fact
a world famous artist, my pieces have been in the Smithsonian on exhibit at the Louvre and in the home of pompous wealthy people the world over."
mircea_popescu: "how to work for bitcoin foundation romania without drawing
a salary : advise people to join you!"
Naphex: there was this funny post on the RoBitcointalk, from
a Romanian girl, asking how to make easy bitcoin online
mircea_popescu: anyway, my hope to have each and every "social sciences" major of
a us university hacking herself with
a dildo for ten bux an hour is moving apace.
badon: Looking at buying
a Country Living Mill.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tell me why anyone sane would put
a clock in at all if he has to ntp anyway
mircea_popescu: mats: id imagine
a feminist would approve of such female empowering tech << i approve, at least prima facie. and im pretty sure im the last feminist alive.
mats: have
a good night folks
mats: tequila works like
a stimulant for me
mats: on
a scale of one to linus
mats: women are empowered bc its even easier now to meet
a real man
decimation: so submitting to the wisdom of
a facebook-powered algorithm is empowering?
mats: id imagine
a feminist would approve of such female empowering tech
mats: tinder is chicks looking for handsome cock and maybe
a night out
mats: did you grow up in
a convent or something
decimation: tinder argues for
a return to 'women-as-property' matchmaking among elders
mats: buncha swipes and
a few messages and i can get nookie on my lunch break
mats: ive been here
a while and i still can't get over the high class white pussy strolling the streets
danielpbarron: if you're gonna run buttcoin on something called
a "pogo plug," you could call it
a buttplug
decimation: albeit
a reliable usb3 to ethernet dongle is probably more costly than the device
decimation: so one could get
a usb3 to ethernet and make
a cheap router too
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, because guy knows the ip and can just check if
a node answers there
mircea_popescu: and
a whole shitload of "charity" in africa isn't going towash this off of them. poor monkey is doing what they claiemd he should be doing. fucking frauds.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes wait, this was
a little girl ? << yeah
hanbot: if it can actually adjust focus distance to make
a real plane, then well...it can adjust focus distance.
hanbot: i imagine what you mean is that the cheapo laser has fixed distance focus. then it would cut on
a spheric surface not really
a cartesian plane.
hanbot: it's always
a polar "plane" anyway no?
punkman: you need
a laser that doesn't just move in cartesian plane, solved problem but expensive
danielpbarron: i bet he did the engraving on
a disc and cut the B out after
hanbot: is it really that hard
a problem? what if you use
a second laser to measure distance and focus the cutter?
undata accepts there is
a loving lord
undata: needing to make noise and generally not wanting to duplicate effort makes
a fair amount of sense
mircea_popescu: shit, let's do
a cold fusion and circle cvadrature bounty on tardstalk!
mircea_popescu: "I would be willing to offer
a negotiable fee or bounty to anyone who could solve this engineering problem."
undata: although he could just have
a sense of humor
ben_vulpes:
a real, as mircea_popescu sez, lolwut moment
ben_vulpes: i was at the nude beach this summer. scads of folks of all ages and sizes parading around, lady v and i stretched out with wine and sammiches on
a blanket somewhat away from the hubub. hundred feet or so down the beach i hear this little kid:
davout: ben_vulpes:
a sad is me